# Philadelphia’s refinery neighbors are fighting AI data centers that haven’t been proposed yet

BloombergNEF now projects that by 2035, natural gas consumption at U.S. data centers will exceed that of Germany and Japan put together. The forecast is nearly twice what the same analysts published only nine months earlier. Where you live determines how a figure like that hits you. For residents of

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| Published | 17 September 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/philadelphias-refinery-neighbors-are-fighting-ai-data-centers-that-havent-been-proposed-yet/